A former children’s television producer, Jonathan Meath, 58, was also the Santa in the lobby of Radio City Music Hall last year, where he posed for numerous pictures with the Rockettes.
When he’s not listening to children’s wish lists or chatting with three senior citizens who have been visiting Santa Claus together for 35 years, you can find him “training” for the momentous Christmas sleigh ride by swimming, running, and flying down a two-story tall slide made out of ice at the hotel’s ice sculpture exhibit.
And if you’re flying Delta, you can also see him putting an oxygen mask on himself before putting one on his elf in the holiday edition of the airline’s in-flight safety video.